Important changes are coming, but we are not making any progress. Sociologist Armin Nassehi explains why the resistance to transformation in society should not surprise the Greens and the climate protesters.
Armin Nassehi has a point. He always does, which is why the well-known sociologist who teaches in Munich is often invited to public discussions, interviews and as a consultant. Now, in his newly published book “Critique of the Grand Gesture,” Armin Nassehi has a point again – with the emphasis on a. Ultimately, it is a single argument that he presents in many words and variations. This argument is: it is not all that simple. You cannot enforce changes from above, as one might have hoped. “A society,” says Nassehi, “does not know a complete solution.”